Google confirmed an update affecting local search results has now fully rolled out, a process that began in early November. In what’s been called the November 2019 Local Search Update, Google is now applying neural matching to local search results. To explain neural matching, Google points to a ...
- Wednesday, 25 December 2019 03:31
- By [Source: This article was published in searchenginejournal.com By Matt Southern]
John Mueller from Google gave one of the clearest and easiest to understand explanations on how Google uses machine learning in web search. He basically said Google uses it for "specific problems" where automation and machine learning can help improve the outcome. The example he gave was with canoni...
- Wednesday, 25 December 2019 02:42
- By [Source: This article was published in seroundtable.com By Barry Schwartz]
Searching on Google has become second nature for billions of people. In fact, Googling is so entrenched in our culture, it's become the generic word for looking things up online. Yet even though you long ago mastered the essentials, there’s still a lot most of us can learn about how to search fast...
- Tuesday, 05 November 2019 01:44
- By [Source: This article was published in usatoday.com By Edward C. Baig]
Google is the search engine that most of us know and use, so much so that the word Google has become synonymous with search. As of Sept 2019, the search engine giant has captured 92.96% of the market share. That’s why it has become utmost important for businesses to get better rank in Google searc...
- Tuesday, 05 November 2019 01:24
- By [Source: This article was published in beebom.com By Partner Content]
Google has seemingly put the final nail in the coffin for Adobe Flash, the once-popular video and animation player that's become less relevant as newer web standards like HTML5 have taken over. The company announced on Monday that its search engine will stop supporting Flash later this year, and t...
- Tuesday, 05 November 2019 00:29
- By [Source: This article was published in businessinsider.com By Lisa Eadicicco]
Yext helps businesses manage their presence on search and across the web; starting today, with the launch of Yext Answers, it’s also helping them provide a better experience on their own websites. “It lets any company with a website answer a question about their own brand in a Google-like exper...
- Tuesday, 05 November 2019 00:01
- By [Source: This article was published in techcrunch.com By Anthony Ha]
As always, when Google releases a new update to its search algorithm, it’s an exciting (and potentially scary) time for SEO. Google’s latest update, BERT, represents the biggest alteration to its search algorithm in the last five years. So, what does BERT do? Google says the BERT update means it...
- Monday, 04 November 2019 04:54
- By [Source: This article was published in smartcompany.com.au By LUCAS BIKOWSKI]
GIPHY co-founder Alex Chung celebrated his company's ascent to being the second-largest search engine in the world Loz Blain/New Atlas The second biggest search engine in the world isn’t about words or information, it’s about body language and emotional expression, and you’re probably using it...
- Monday, 04 November 2019 04:26
- By [Source: This article was published in newatlas.co By Loz Blain]
Search-engine giant says one in 10 queries (and some advertisements) will see improved results from algorithm change MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google rarely talks about its secretive search algorithm. This week, the tech giant took a stab at transparency, unveiling changes that it says will surface mo...
- Monday, 04 November 2019 01:12
- By [Source: This article was published in wsj.com By Rob Copeland]
Don't try to optimize for BERT, try to optimize your content for humans. Google introduced the BERT update to its Search ranking system last week. The addition of this new algorithm, designed to better understand what’s important in natural language queries, is a significant change. Google said ...
- Monday, 04 November 2019 00:07
- By [Source: This article was published in searchengineland.com By Barry Schwartz]
Google said it is making the biggest change to its search algorithm in the past five years that, if successful, users might not be able to detect. The search giant on Friday announced a tweak to the software underlying its vaunted search engine that is meant to better interpret queries when written ...
- Monday, 28 October 2019 01:58
- By [Source: This article was published inunionleader.com By Greg Bensinger]
On a Google Webmaster Hangout someone asked about the role of H1s on a web page. John Mueller responded that heading tags were good for several reasons but they’re not a critical element. SEO and H1 Headings One of the top rules for Search Engine Optimization has long been adding keywords to your ...
- Monday, 28 October 2019 00:20
- By [Source: This article was published in searchenginejournal.com By Roger Montti]
Friends, you're going to wish you were still making the scene with a magazine after reading this sentence: Google's web trackers are all up in your fap time and there's pretty much nothing (except maybe using a more secure browser like Firefox, read up on cybersecurity tips from the EFF, refusing t...
- Saturday, 05 October 2019 03:59
- By [Source: This article was published in boingboing.net By seamus bellamy]
Google and Facebook collect information about us and then sell that data to advertisers. Websites deposit invisible “cookies” onto our computers and then record where we go online. Even our own government has been known to track us. When it comes to digital privacy, it’s easy to feel hopeless....
- Saturday, 05 October 2019 02:15
- By [Source: This article was published in nytimes.com By David Pogue]
A Boolean search, in the context of a search engine, is a type of search where you can use special words or symbols to limit, widen, or define your search. This is possible through Boolean operators such as AND, OR, NOT, and NEAR, as well as the symbols + (add) and - (subtract).
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- Thursday, 03 October 2019 10:57
- By [Source: This article was published in lifewire.com By Tim Fisher]
Boolean searches make it easy to find what you're looking for in a Google search. The two basic Boolean search commands AND and OR are supported in Google. Boolean searches specify what you want to find and whether to make it more specific (using AND) or less specific (using OR).
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- Thursday, 03 October 2019 10:29
- By [Source: This article was published in lifewire.com By Marziah Karch]
The Internet has made researching subjects deceptively effortless for students -- or so it may seem to them at first. Truth is, students who haven't been taught the skills to conduct good research will invariably come up short. That's part of the argument made by Wheaton College Professor Alan Jac...
- Thursday, 03 October 2019 04:28
- By [Source: This article was published in kqed.org By Tasha Bergson-Michelson]
Overview | Do Internet search engines point us to the information that we need or confuse us with irrelevant or questionable information? How can Internet users improve their searches to find reliable information? What are some ways to perform effective searches? In this lesson, students conduct We...
- Thursday, 03 October 2019 03:22
- By [Source: This article was published in nytimes.com By Sarah Kavanagh And Holly Epstein Ojalvo]
[Source: This article was published in searchenginejournal.com By Matt Southern - Uploaded by the Association Member: Edna Thomas] Google is giving site owners the ability to customize how their content is previewed in search results. By default, Google has always generated search snippets according...
- Monday, 30 September 2019 02:27
- By [Source: This article was published in searchenginejournal.com By Matt Southern]
[Source: This article was published in bbc.co.uk - Uploaded by the Association Member: Jennifer Levin] Google turns 21 on Friday 27 September. The popular search engine is used by people right across the world and it's become a really important part of the internet for many. To mark the special da...
- Monday, 30 September 2019 01:50
- By [Source: This article was published in bbc.co.uk]
[Source: This article was published in eu-startups.com By Mary Loritz- Uploaded by the Association Member: Logan Hochstetler] Keeping track of market insights and making them accessible to all employees is a problem faced by companies big and small. Stockholm-based startup Stravito‘s SaaS soluti...
- Tuesday, 24 September 2019 09:12
- By [Source: This article was published in eu-startups.com By Mary Loritz]
[Source: This article was published in nakedsecurity.sophos.com By Mark Stockley - Uploaded by the Association Member: Deborah Tannen] The history of computing features a succession of organisations that looked, for a while at least, as if they were so deeply embedded in our lives that we’d never ...
- Monday, 23 September 2019 16:16
- By [Source: This article was published in nakedsecurity.sophos.com By Mark Stockley]
[Source: This article was published in computerworld.com By Jonny Evans - Uploaded by the Association Member: Joshua Simon] Apple users who care about privacy are moving to DuckDuckGo for search. These tips will get you started with it. Like liberty for all, privacy demands vigilance, and that’s w...
- Monday, 23 September 2019 15:50
- By [Source: This article was published in computerworld.com By Jonny Evans]
[Source: This article was published in seroundtable.com By Barry Schwartz - Uploaded by the Association Member: Bridget Miller] Google's John Mueller said it again, do not worry about words or keywords in the URLs. John responded to a recent question on Twitter saying "I wouldn't worry about keywo...
- Monday, 23 September 2019 15:41
- By [Source: This article was published in seroundtable.com By Barry Schwartz]
[Source: This article was published in theverge.com By Adi Robertson - Uploaded by the Association Member: Jay Harris] Last weekend, in the hours after a deadly Texas church shooting, Google search promoted false reports about the suspect, suggesting that he was a radical communist affiliated with...
- Monday, 23 September 2019 08:37
- By [Source: This article was published in theverge.com By Adi Robertson]
